http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/brooklyn/2009/03/24/2009-03-24_atlantic_yards_project_in_brooklyn_is_de.html
Excerpt:
The multi-billion Atlantic Yards development in Brooklyn is dead, according to one who should know: the “starchitect” who was going to build it.
Asked by a trade paper about “unrealized commissions” he most wishes had been built, famed 80-year-old architect Frank Gehry brought up Atlantic Yards.
“I don’t think it’s going to happen,” he told the Architect’s Newspaper in an interview published online.
Me: I tracked a pingback to a previous post I did about Atlantic Yards and it linked to the post and referred to it as ‘bitter’. And while I don’t think bitter is the right word for the feelings I have about Atlantic Yards, I don’t want my fellow Brooklynites putting me in the bitter slot.
Let me change my tone. I’m psyched Gehry used the ‘d’ word as in dead, kaput, no go. I feel empathy towards those who have taken time out of their lives to oppose this corporate monstrosity. I’m happy Bruce Ratner’s ugly anti-democratic concrete monstrosity may not come to pass. I will be thrilled if Mayor Bloomberg takes a black eye on this project.
But it’s not official. And as everybody knows, vampires are really difficult to kill. So let’s hope this slow circling of the toilet will eventually culminate with a flush. The day Bruce Ratner throws in the towel will be a great day.
